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Fourth Cook Robert George Jones

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Fourth Cook
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: RMS MISSANABIE (London, England) (136705)
Birth: January 1, 1890 West Derby, England
Death: September 9, 1918 North Atlantic

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Son of Robert Fletcher Jones and Ellen Ann McArthur of Bootle, Lancashire, England, Husband of Elizabeth Blutcher of Bootle.

The Missanabie was en route from Liverpool, England, to Quebec City and Montreal, Quebec, when on 9 September 1918 she was torpedoed by UB-87 52 miles (84 km) off Daunt's Rock, Cork, Ireland. She sank with 45 of her crew, position 58°11'N/07°25'W.

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Page 39 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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